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Angry Groundhog Causes Mayhem At Little League Baseball Game
The trouble began the way most trouble with groundhogs tends to begin: with a group of gawking children hoping to get a closer look....

Hockey Fan Gives Great Explanation For Canceling Pick-Up Pizza Order
I mean, you can't really blame him, right?...

So, Sloane Stephens And Serena Williams Really Aren't Friends
Back in January, before 19-year-old Sloane Stephens upset Serena Williams in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, we went through the dumbest possible pre-match story: the fake mentorship narrative. ...


You'll Be Able To See The Bay Bridge From Inside The Warriors' New Arena
The Warriors have released updated renderings of their potential arena on the San Francisco waterfront. It's tough to give the interior of a basketball arena much character, but if the final product looks anything like the preliminary designs, this one is going to be sweet. ...

Brittney Griner First Came Out To Her Mother In The Ninth Grade
It's been a few weeks since Brittney Griner casually came out by announcing she was already out. Today, in a first-person essay for The New York Times, she provides the backstory, which begins with a conversation she had with her mother when Griner was in the ninth grade:...

F is for Fugazi
Dig this one: Nancy Jo Sales' 1998 profile of Vince McMahon for New York magazine....

Fart Interrupts Snooker World Championship Semifinal
Ronnie O'Sullivan is en route to his fifth snooker world championship title, but his win over Judd Trump in the semifinal was a real stinker....

Baseball Player Uses Teammate's Pee For Drug Test, Fails Drug Test
Pro tip: If you're going to use somebody else's pee to try and weasel your way out of a drug test, don't borrow pee from the guy who has an Adderall prescription....

We're About To Find Out Just How Great Kevin Durant Can Be
If there's one silver lining for basketball fans to extract from Russell Westbrook's season-ending knee injury, it's that we now have the opportunity to see Kevin Durant attempt to become something he's never had to be before: a transcendent superstar trying to singlehandedly pull his team through ...

Boston College Softball Player Goes Over Fence To Make Amazing Catch
Georgia Tech's Alysha Rudnik hit the ball over the fence to lead off yesterday's third inning. But BC senior centerfielder Maria Pandolfo jumped and lunged over the fence to take away her certain homer, startling even the person who had been taking video just a few feet away....

I'm Tryin' to Get Money Like Felipe Lopez
So rapped the Beatnuts back in 1994. That's when Lopez was a big deal in New York. And that's around the time Susan Orlean wrote about Lopez for the New Yorker (actually, her profile appeared in the spring of '93):...

Here's A Dog Dressed As A Hot Dog, Eating A Hot Dog
Yesterday was the annual "Bark in the Park" day in Atlanta, the only time—other than when the Reds are in town—when ticketholders must show proof they've been vaccinated against Parvo and Bordetella....

Outdoorsman And TV Host Bill Dance Has A Spectacular Blooper Reel
Bill Dance has been imparting his knowledge of the outdoors as the host of Bill Dance Outdoors since 1968. He has also spent much of that time committing hilarious fuck ups while filming his show—fuck ups which have been compiled into one wonderful blooper reel....

Three Times Dope
Here's Shirley Povich's column on Don Larsen's perfect game:...

Padres Invite Navy Spouse To Sing, Err, Lip Sync "God Bless America"
It's Military Spouse Appreciation Day in San Diego; the Padres are in their usual Sunday camo and a special 7th-inning message from deployed Navy sailor Joseph Dale was featured on the scoreboard. Following that message, Dale's wife Caroline sang "God Bless America." Except it's pretty clear she wa...

Penguins Fan Gets Kicked Out Of Nassau Coliseum For Being Shithoused
"Sandstorm" plays in the background as a security guard escorts this super drunk Pittsburgh Penguins fan out of his seat. Islanders fans in his section console him by chanting "ASSHOLE" as he gets booted. Jarome Iginla's number one fan has his playoff hockey experience cut short on account of being ...

It Is Race Day And I Am The Worst: Recovering Fatass Soundtrack
I screwed up big time. I skipped my final long run before the race and barely ran all week. I am a real bastard sometimes. What follows is the playlist I would have listened to, had I not been so characteristically lazy and good-for-nothing. Here's a Spotify version for you, if you are into sonic re...

Boston Bruins Honor Marathon Bombing Victim Before Game 2
Last you saw Jeff Bauman, he was mangled, with a complexion reminiscent of Beetlejuice. Pushing Bauman's stretcher was a man in a cowboy hat who had shredded a sweater to make tourniquets for what remained of Bauman's legs....

Sure, Why Not, Give Blind Boy Some Credit For Ryan Howard's Homer
We can’t say with certainty that Ryan Howard a home run Friday for a little boy who is blind. What we can say for sure is a little boy named A.J., who is 7 years old and who is blind, asked Ryan Howard before the game to hit a home run and that Ryan Howard clobbered the first strike Ricky Nolasco pr...